Totally confused with my SEO problems!!! Help me out!!!

Hello everyone,
I have starter a blog back in January 2012 - Infworm.com, I have worked a lot on it and had posted daily content and got quality backlinks. Everything was working fine. I had a Pagerank of 1, thousands of daily visitors and I have around 600-700 pages out of which around 500+ were indexed in Google. But due to some problems, I had to switch my website to a new hosting service, keeping the domain name provider same.
I changed the nameservers to the new ones and transferred the site completely. Once that was done, I was shown an error in webmaster tools that Google couldn't crawl my site, so I deleted my sitemap and re-submitted it. That was the day, until now it hasn't been yet indexed in Google and my rank is dropping day by day. Please help, I am not even getting the reason for this problem!!!

Secondly: the sitemap listed in your robots.txt file actually leads to ANOTHER sitemap which in turn lists your files. I don't believe that was what you intended to do, was it?

Finally: if your website's visibility depends 100% on your sitemap, then it doesn't have enough good backlinks. It will need those backlinks anyway, to get indexed, get ranked and STAY ranked.

I actually do not know much where I am going wrong. Could you please tell me detail what exactly I should do? I use wordpress and Google XML Sitemap generator plugin. In robots.txt I have linked to sitemaps.xml file. Where am I going wrong?

There is your biggest problem. You need to change it to index. All that is being indexed currently is the Homepage and the /wp-content/ directory. You can submit a sitemap all you want but if you have the pages set to noindex they are not going to get indexed.

I see you are using Yoast. I have been using Yoast for a while now and I know that in the Yoast settings it gives you a big warning saying your pages are set not to be indexed. Have you not seen this warning?.

There is your biggest problem. You need to change it to index. All that is being indexed currently is the Homepage and the /wp-content/ directory. You can submit a sitemap all you want but if you have the pages set to noindex they are not going to get indexed.

I see you are using Yoast. I have been using Yoast for a while now and I know that in the Yoast settings it gives you a big warning saying your pages are set not to be indexed. Have you not seen this warning?.

Thanks a lot for your response. I have made some changes now, How can I check the meta tags now after the changes. If it has not taken place, from where can I do the necessary changes?
One more thing: Is this a serious issue causing Google not to index all my previously indexed pages?

While in Yoast SEO plugin, after my site transfer I have mistakenly checked the noindex, follow for all of my posts, pages and all. But just now I have unchecked it. Is it still somewhere, where there is a setting that I am missing which has left it to noindex?

Now there's some serious issues here, you are very much right about the noindex thing. How ignorant I was about it. Anyways, now the problem is in Yoast SEO, Titles and Meta -> I have unchecked the noindex,follow option in post types and saved it.
But even after the changes, in indivual posts and pages, I see that in Advanced settings for each page in Yoast SEO Wordpress Page, I see that it is still showing noindex, follow.
Please Help with this!!

Mind you, people are doing a full Site Review here while you're not even eligible to get one yet... But never mind that

Full site review?
Whatever it may be, but you people at this forum are definitely great!!! Thanks for all your support, but there is one last problem I have previously stated, just after I fix it, I won't bother you people. But you people at seochat forums are really great!!!
Thanks and sorry once again.

Never mind. It never hurts to ask for assistance. And if people here feel they can (maybe) help, they will chime in.

P.S.: I think that your site is using LOTS of plugins. No?

Sort of!! Yeah, I know it has a lot of plugins, but I need all those and most of them are very low resource using plugins. I also use p3-Plugin performance profiler plugin and it shows that much of resources are not wasted by these plugins.

Before I saw the posts about the noindex stuff I had a look at your site. Now, noindexing is obviously a huge issue but you may have other issues as well. Where are you getting your content from?

I checked a few articles and several of them were direct copies from elswhere on the web, for example: http://infworm.com/no-google-maps-for-ios-6-as-of-yet/
is the same as
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57519592-93/google-hasnt-done-anything-yet-with-maps-for-ios-6-schmidt-says/

This is a huge flag for Panda. If a user is searching for something and the exact same article exists on multiple pages then Google only wants to show one copy of this. If your site has many articles that are duplicated then it's not just those articles that suffer but your whole site can be slapped with Panda and fall to page 10+.

Comments on this post

zico82 agrees
: Seems there's more than just an indexing problem with the site. What will we find if we dig deeper ;)